Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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